This part of the course looks pretty cool. Gap to everything due to grass...

Gap to lip. Did the X-Games hire graffiti artists to come and "make it look like the streets?"
Axe body spray and the US Navy bring you... Nick Trapasso skating authentic fake street.

The Arizona-Florida connection...

Steamer and Trapasso. Toy Machine blood.

Billy showed up to collect the rider gift basket, then turned around and went home. Yeah I said Rider Gift Basket. I'll have to find out what comes in it. I got 100 bucks that there is some Axe body spray. I used that once and 20 hot girls attacked me and wanted to have sex with me, just like the commercial.

Nick's posse came to score some free food.

Front feebs, son!

Nick was thinking about what body spray would do to his already babe magnet self. It could turn him into some sort of uber-clooney hyper-attractive mega-stud... or not.

For Surfers, Skaters, Perverts, BMX'ers, Weirdos, People Watchers, Free Schwag Collectors, Exhibitionists, and any combination thereunder the Extreme Beach Culture weekend of the US open in Huntington Beach is your Valhalla.

Longboard with doggy bed and pirate flag, checkered Vans, cruising the bike path for chicks, bro, livin' the life brah!

Dude-bro, why do those hipsters have cameras? "Oh my gaad, erase that pict-ture!" "It's a film camera bitch."

Sinclair scored some sweet picz, brudda!

A perfect dismount. Holmes was there laying down some smooth ass lines fool, hawaiian steez, brah. Mike V should be here.

Ed was there in shorts and flip-flops trying to be in disguise as a bro-brah, well he is an actual HB local... Later he was heard saying, "Locals Only you inland kooks, go back to La Mirada!" Ed is seen here with legendary skater from San Jose, "Reeps." I couldn't find any footage of Reeps, so here is Corey O'Brian's video part from Santa Cruz's Streets On Fire. It says Reeps is in there according to this website. They were bros. Ed looks a lot like one of those camera toting hipsters with that tote-bag.

A shot of the bowl, bro, dude, you said bowl, I would totally pack a bowl right now. 4:20 snootchy bootchie!

Transistor Sect conference:
"I say we take over the world."
"I concur, we'll take over the world!"
"How, when nobody buys Toy Machine?"
"Dude, we have Leo Romero, he will rally all the Mexican skaters to our rescue!"
"Fully!"
"Where is your snork, brah?"
"I slicked it back, rockabilly style."
"Oh, snap."
"Did you just say "Oh Snap"?
"Yeah, I did."
"Where the hell is Nick Trapasso?"

Billy double-flipped and half-cab flipped the Rincon stairs like he was just on his way to the store.

There was a kickflip before this "crooks."

Also easy for Bill: a mega-floating backside flip over the table.

Some of Bill's posse.

Elissa and BA. The next day Jamie T. was there. And Ed. Almost all of the Welcome to Hell roster.

These _________ (whose names cannot be mentioned by court order™)

We sat in the stands the whole time, watching over from above like a castrated turkey vulture. Sometimes Bill came to visit.

I missed all of the free schwag that was being thrown up into the stands, and I missed every time my opportunity to stab a hole in the floating ball that kept pinging off peoples' heads. A few companies went with the blow up plastic sticks that are simply used to bang together and make the most annoyingly loud clapping sound. After every day literally everyone suddenly realizes to themselves, "what the hell are these useful for now?' and throws them on the ground and steps on them, creating a battlefield of gunshot sounds as they pop all around the arena. Hey Landfill, open your puckered lips and accept just a little more one-time use plastic into your earthly belly.

Also from the stands I happened to be sitting behind (both days I might add, and different girls too, leaving me no choice but to surmise that the stands were comprised of one third industry people, one third general skateboarding fans, and one third specifically Ryan Sheckler fans.) a group of girls who had their digital cameras set to full zoom and whose arms swayed back and forth following Sheckler around the course. They squealed when he made a good trick, and creamed themselves when he took his shirt off confirming what we already knew that he is in fact Sheckler by way of SHECKLER tattooed in 6-inch-tall lettering across his shoulders. The girls all did a collective "Awwwwwww" when Shecklers' dad gave his son a cheek to cheek pep-talk before his session, or was it a prayer? Of all the things going on in this world would God be so benevolent as to make Ryan win a skateboard contest and hence $100,000 dollars? (And lets assume further, for fun, that the $100,000 prize money may just be to buy a Lamborghini to add to his quiver of cars.) I only mention a Lamborghini because one of the funnier answers to the question "What would you do with the $100,000?" was from Terry Kennedy who quickly and shortly replied, "Lamborghini.") (When the winner of the contest, Chris Cole was asked the same question he replied in a much more practical way saying, "Saving it in the bank." Smart kid.)

Yesterday I was sitting in the stands and a kid walks into the bench in front of me with his dad. He is wearing and Etnies shirt and a RedBull hat. He was busy eating a giant corn-dog. Just to test a theory I shouted out, "Whoa is that Sheckler?" And he almost jumped out of his seat, his head choppily scanning side to side like a birds might hoping to get a bearing on the Sheckler. It was fun. Ryan skated real good and took a manly slam trying to BS flip from the roof gap into the bank.

And of course on of the best parts about the Maloof is the free access to the OC Fair and the hot beef dip Grant was about to dip into.

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(Even Kobe thinks they should donate the park instead of jackhammering it...)

He showed up and people went ape-shit.

He found a seat and started watching Bill get awesome.

Tre-flip lip...
Adam Dyet saying "Damn!"

Kobe was excited to see such skill.
In an interview he said, "All I do is run and jump and put a ball in a hoop. This Billy Marks spins his board 360 degrees while flipping it, don't forget that you have to ollie up first to make that happen, then land IN a lipslide on a handrail-!!! Now that is fucking hard." And the interviewer said, "Word."

But I think Bill was on his way out. "I hate all these people here." He said, as he walked away.

Then I was telling everyone about Leo getting his ass kicked by a group of skaters in Denver. They loved it! True story, watch your back in Denver, the skaters there are so cool they beat up pros for no reason.

Gets the reward: Pain, it's always pain, but sometimes its glory and satisfaction.

This is Billy's son Catch contemplating what he will be doing with his birth gift, a complete Toy board, when he turns 12.
Our new line of baby products will be out this winter.

This photo taken in 1986 shows Jose Cerda doing a "Chavo-Cock" (named after Mark Gonzales, who did one in some contest...) And behind Jose awaiting his turn is a 14 year old Ed Templeton, probably getting ready for his "secret trick" the "Boneless finger-flip to Bean plant."